A captured American soldier in Afghanistan pleads on a recently released video that the "American people who have that power" to bring the war prisoners home. An American soldier missing from his eastern Afghanistan military base and later confirmed as captured was found on avideo released from the Taliban. This information is cited from the Associated Press and confirmed by two U.S. defense officials.

The full video that is 28 minutes in length shows the prisoner sitting in an eastern sitting position speaking of how he misses his family and that he is afraid that he may never be able to hug his family again. The American soldier is shown with his head shaved as he gives a statement through heart wrenching sniffling who tells the American people that they have the power to bring captured American soldiers home.

The American soldier is wearing eastern attire and eats with a fork and a spoon as he talks of his girlfriend who he hopes to marry. He says that he has a very good family back home in America who he misses very much. The identify of the soldier has not yet been released but the associated press says that his captors held the soldier's dog tag up to the camera with his name and ID number clearly visible at the start of the original video. The Associated Press however has not released his name or the ID number from his military ID tag.

The protocol is that the Pentagon has to release the identity of the captured soldier in Afghanistan and Congress has to be notified at the time that the captured soldier's familly is notified. The captured soldier says that the date of the video is July 14, 2009 and that he was captured when he lagged behind of his patrol in Afghanistan.

The captured American soldier's interview is done in English by his captors and is asked views about the war which he said is "extremely hard." The captured soldier said that the morale is low of the American soldiers in Afghanistan. He said that he was scared twice when his captor asked him how he was doing. "Well, I'm scared, scared I won't be able to go home. It is very unnerving to be a prisoner."

He is promted to give the following message to the American people through a sad low drawl holding back tears with the sound of sniffling throughout the video and this is the captured American's soldier's statement:

"To my fellow Americans who have loved ones over here, who know what it's like to miss them, you have the power to make our government bring them home. Please, please bring us home so that we can be back where we belong and not over here, wasting our itme and our lives and our precious life that we could be using back in our own country. Please bring us home. It is America and American people who have that power."

The Associated Press said that it was unclear if the date of the video of the captured American soldier in Afghanistan was authenic. The United States military, however, reported on July 2, 2009 that an American soldier had disappeared after walking off his base in eastern Afghanistan. The captured American soldier was reported missing on June 30 and has been listed as "duty status whereabouts unknown." The latest on the American efforts to free the captured American soldier in Afghanistan is that the U.S. efforts are "doing everything we can to return him safely."